For our advanced media class we were assigned to illustrate Man, Pet and Machine. Our teacher made it clear that we could interpret it any way we wanted. The human could be the pet, the machine could be as simple as a knife or rock, the man and animal could be mixed. Any way we wanted to think about it

I've been taking a fun india class so i decided to do something in that direction. A goddess type character sitting on top of a giant elephant that half morphs into industrial machinery.

This is the goddess, she came out pretty much how I pictured her. Except for the fact that she has 9 arms. I say she lost one in a fight.

I love this, however one thing bothered me. The uneven number of arms. Perhaps making it more visibly apparent her loss of one arm? A stump or splatter, or even a "ghost arm" to elude to the fact that one was missing on purpose and not as an oversight.

My eyes were immediately drawn to the misfit appendage and without your explanation there would be no natural conclusion as to why the uneven number. Perhaps even an industrial or prosthetic arm in it's place?